Playing Dead

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Author by Julia Heaberlin
Genre : Fiction
Editor : Ballantine Books
ISBN : 9780345527028
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 352
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“A compelling family mystery that kept me turning the pages. Highly recommended.”—Margaret Maron, New York Times bestselling author of Three Day Town “Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?” The letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father’s death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter—and that she was kidnapped as a baby thirty-one years ago. Tommie wants to believe it’s all a hoax, but suddenly a girl who grew up on a Texas ranch finds herself linked to a horrific past: the slaughter of a family in Chicago, the murder of an Oklahoma beauty queen, and the kidnapping of a little girl named Adriana. Tommie races along a twisting, nightmarish path while an unseen stalker is determined to keep old secrets locked inside the dementia-battered brain of the woman who Tommie always thought was her real mother. With everything she has ever believed in question, and no one she can trust, Tommie must discover the truth about the girl who vanished—and the very real threats that still remain. “[Julia Heaberlin’s] voice is pitch perfect, and her story of one woman’s fierce struggle to reconcile her past with her present is gripping and powerful. An outstanding debut.”—Carla Buckley, author of Invisible


Playing Dead

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Author by Montana Miller
Genre : Social Science
Editor : University Press of Colorado
ISBN : 9781492000464
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 111
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As the Grim Reaper pulls a student out of class to be a “victim” of drunk driving in a program called “Every 15 Minutes,” Montana Miller observes the ritual through a folklorist’s lens. Playing Dead examines why hundreds of American schools and communities each year organize these mock tragedies without any national sponsorship or coordination. Often, the event is complete with a staged accident in the parking lot, a life-flight helicopter, and faux eulogies for the “dead” students read in school assemblies. Grounding her research in play theory, frame theory, and theory of folk drama, Miller investigates key aspects of this emergent tradition, paying particular attention to its unplanned elements—enabled by the performance’s spontaneous nature and the participants’ tendency to stray from the intended frame. Miller examines such variations in terms of the program as a whole, analyzing its continued popularity and weighing its success as perceived by participants. Her fieldwork reveals a surprising aspect of Every 15 Minutes that typical studies of ritual do not include: It can be fun. Playing Dead is volume two of the series Ritual, Festival, and Celebration, edited by Jack Santino.


Playing Dead

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Author by Peggy Rothschild
Genre : Fiction
Editor : Penguin
ISBN : 9780593437124
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 305
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Molly Madison is back to solve another doggone difficult murder in her California community in this mystery from the author of A Deadly Bone to Pick. Molly Madison has barely had a moment to catch her breath after moving to the sleepy beach town she now calls home. But as a former PI, she can’t help but notice the odd chemistry between members of Playtime Academy on the first day she and her loyal Saint Bernadoodle, Noodle, and golden retriever, Harlow, visit. When a trainer’s body is found on-site, Molly knows it’s her duty to put her ex-police skills to use. She can’t say no to temporarily taking in the deceased woman’s dog, either—not with those puppy dog eyes. Relationships at the training facility are not as clean as the prize-winning agility runs, making it difficult for Molly to get a leash on potential suspects. And her personal life is just as messy—her boyfriend is hiding something, her agoraphobic neighbor needs help, and her number of four-legged friends keep growing as she agrees to dogsit a wriggly local French bulldog. When Molly’s friend is arrested for the murder, she’s not sure who to believe anymore. Is the case as simple as the local cops make it seem, or is something more devious afoot?


Cherringham Playing Dead

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Author by Neil Richards
Genre : Fiction
Editor : BASTEI LÜBBE
ISBN : 9783838748412
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 161
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When Cherringham Drama Society invite a local TV celebrity to direct their Christmas show, they get more publicity than they bargained for. Someone's out to sabotage the event, and rehearsals spin into chaos. Jack and Sarah are asked to investigate and soon discover that there's a darker mystery taking place behind the scenes ... Cherringham is a serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new mystery thriller released each month. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa. For fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series, Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who series, Caroline Graham's Midsomer Murders, and the American TV series Murder She Wrote, starring Angela Lansbury. Co-authors Neil Richards (based in the UK) and Matthew Costello (based in the US), are known for their script work on major computer games. The Cherringham crime series is their first fictional transatlantic collaboration.


Playing Dead

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Author by Rudy Wiebe
Genre : Arctic regions
Editor :
ISBN : UVA:X001666943
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 144
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A collection of essays about the Canadian Arctic, both land and people, by a Canadian writer enamoured of the North.


Embodying The Dead

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Author by Claire Hind
Genre : Performing Arts
Editor : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN : 9781137602930
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 240
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Where do we find the dead? Do the dead appear in our dreams? What is it like to play dead? This book is an exciting exploration of the relationship between death and play in performance. Exploring a range of artists and creative disciplines that remember, personify and re-imagine the dead, it playfully unpacks the psychoanalytic concepts of the Death Drive, Desire and the Uncanny as a way of thinking about performance. Embodying the Dead draws on work of Gary Winters and Claire Hind and the various qualities of deadness found in their projects. The authors' work includes live art, theatre, installation, Super 8mm film, walking arts practice and durational performance. This book includes scripts and scores of their performances, original creative texts, interviews with internationally renowned artists and a series of practice-led research tasks to support readers creating their own imaginative performance work. Rich in creative and critical content, this book is ideal for students of drama, theatre and performance studies who have an interest in devised theatre, theatre making, writing for performance and intermedial practice.


The Peculiar Superpowers Of Eleanor Armstrong

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Author by K. A. Schloegel
Genre :
Editor : K. A. Schloegel
ISBN : 9781439249758
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 328
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Teenager Eleanor Armstrong writes a high-school romance novel that turns into a zombie attack thriller after she is forced to make sense of a series of "zombie attacks" in her own life.


Surviving Mass Victim Attacks

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Author by Gary M. Jackson, Ph.D
Genre : Law
Editor : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN : 9781538110881
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 236
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Surviving Mass Victim Attacks serves as a guide to anyone who wishes to be more knowledgeable and better prepared if caught in an attack. Gary Jackson focuses on extracted principles of survival, rather than simply describing past events, to help and provide a useful guide on how to survive in future attacks.


Shakespearean Tragedy And Its Double

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Author by Kent Cartwright
Genre : Literary Criticism
Editor : Penn State Press
ISBN : 9780271039633
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 301
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50 Wacky Things Animals Do

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Author by Tricia Martineau Wagner
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Editor : Walter Foster Jr.
ISBN : 9781633222953
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 110
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Young animal lovers will be fascinated as they learn about the wacky, interesting, and sometimes gross things animals do that seem too crazy to be true, but are!